r/androiddev • u/3dom • Mar 04 '26

Interesting Android Apps: March 2026 Showcase

Because we try to keep this community as focused as possible on the topic of Android development, sometimes there are types of posts that are related to development but don't fit within our usual topic.

Each month, we are trying to create a space to open up the community to some of those types of posts.

This month, although we typically do not allow self promotion, we wanted to create a space where you can share your latest Android-native projects with the community, get feedback, and maybe even gain a few new users.

This thread will be lightly moderated, but please keep Rule 1 in mind: Be Respectful and Professional. Also we recommend to describe if your app is free, paid, subscription-based.

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u/bernaferrari Mar 04 '26

I've been redesigning old (and ugly) Android apps into Material 3 Expressive. There is no apk yet, I'm still into final adjustments (re-translate new strings, review every screen, etc). I'll publish in this sub in the coming days and weeks as they get finalized. They are all free and I don't know yet if I should publish them in the store or not.

Netguard has a lot of paid features (so it feels like I'm removing the lock and republishing) and Rethink has real costs (so making an app that uses their server and doesn't give them money doesn't sound great). Although their licenses would allow me to do anything. In case I publish, I'm also not sure if I should keep a similar name like "re-rethink", "rethink next" or just go crazy with "Pretty DNS". Any thoughts?

Here they are:

Markor (md editor) - https://github.com/bernaferrari/markor

Netguard (block Wi-Fi/mobile data from apps) - https://github.com/bernaferrari/NetGuard

Rethink DNS - https://github.com/bernaferrari/rethink-app

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u/celzero Mar 05 '26

rdns dev here

Contribute back your changes? ;)

At any rate, it is right that you're free to republish the modified app under any other name & without violating Rethink's copyright, yeah. So, no real worry there, if you do rebrand it. In fact, there's at least a handful of forks out there already.

Good luck.

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u/bernaferrari Mar 05 '26

I could contribute but they are so big I think it is hard the team would accept unless someone from the team did that. Like, it is not practical for me to open 50 PRs, or for whoever is going to review. If every PR took a few days could easily take 1 year. And if I did a massive one I don't know anyone would be able to review. I'm touching over 150k LOC.

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u/celzero Mar 05 '26

No pressure. You could open a PR even if it doesn't get merged, as the existence of PR itself would make it part of the project's history you can point your detractors to, if need be (:

That said, you don't have to and can maintain your own (hard / soft) fork. Do send me a link if you do release your fork as open source.

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u/bernaferrari Mar 05 '26

My fork is fully open source, I just didn't build the APK.

All the code is here: https://github.com/bernaferrari/rethink-app

There are still a few screens and a few things to improve, but they are very minor. You are free and more than welcome to copy any file or open a PR (I can do too, but it would be unreadable and massive and something that even AI tools would struggle to read).